Beast Mastery Hunter Leveling Guide from 1 to 70 — The War Within Pre-Patch
On this page, you will find our Level by Level Beast Mastery Hunter leveling guide for The War Within. Make sure to use the slider to make the guide adapt to your level. For more general leveling information, please refer to our Hunter leveling guide.
Beast Mastery Hunter Leveling Guide for The War Within
Gear Options
When leveling up, always choose the piece of loot with the highest item level. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Ring or Necklace with a slightly lower item level, but 2 secondary stats on it instead of 1.
Best Leveling Talents for Beast Mastery Hunter
You unlock the Talent Trees at Level 10. Further below is the recommended Leveling Talent path.
Beast Mastery Hunter Spec and Guide Changes for Latest Patch
Best Beast Mastery Hunter Leveling Talents
"Chill Mode" Leveling Build
This build assumes you are taking things at a relaxed pace and just enjoying the process. It assumes you are going to be fighting mob-by-mob primarily.
Speed Leveling Build
This build is intended for speed-leveling and sacrifices single-target damage to maximize your ability to make huge pulls and AoE damage.
Level by Level Rotation
To keep things simple while leveling and learning the spec, use the slider to select your level, and watch as the leveling rotation grows with each level!
Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!
Leveling Rotation for Beast Mastery Hunter
When using our slider, note that some talents may appear sooner than you expect them to in the rotation. This is because we have two recommended builds above, each taking talents at slightly different times, and sometimes entirely different talents.
- On AoE, use
Multi-Shot to maintain
Beast Cleave on your pet.
- Use
Bestial Wrath on pulls and mobs that will survive most of its duration.
- Use
Explosive Shot on cooldown.
- Use
Mend Pet for large pulls to keep your pet healthy.
- Use
Kill Shot on targets below 20% health.
- Use
Kill Command on cooldown.
- Use
Barbed Shot to keep it from hitting 2 charges, and to maintain the
Frenzy buff on your pet.
- Use
Dire Beast on cooldown.
- Use
Cobra Shot as a filler.
- Spam
Arcane Shot.
- Use
Steady Shot as a filler.
Best Leveling Pet for Beast Mastery Hunter
All pets do the same damage, but they vary in their utility and special
abilities.
For Leveling, the best pet is any
Ferocity-type
pet, as they heal
themselves
whenever they do damage, allowing you to make larger pulls and rely on
Beast Cleave to keep your pet topped up.
If you are having it very easy with a Ferocity pet, swap to a
Cunning
Pet for additional movement speed, but less pet survivability, and no
Primal Rage.
Ferocity pets also come with Primal Rage, which is a Bloodlust
effect. Use this as often as possible when fighting
for over thirty seconds.
You can find a list of all the Pets and the abilities they bring on our Spell Summary Page.
Level 80: Congratulations!
Congratulations on reaching Level 80! Now that you have hit Level 80, we recommend looking at our Easy mode page, Talents section, and Rotation section to learn how to play at max level.
Changelog
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.7
- 21 Aug. 2023: Restructured the page.
- 11 Jul. 2023: Slightly updated the talent order.
- 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 24 Mar. 2023: Fixed an issue with the talent order.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 05 Nov. 2022: Reintroduced the level slider by popular request.
- 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Azortharion, a Hunter Theorycrafter and Guidewriter since 2014 who is widely considered one of the best Hunters in the world. He is an accomplished player with hundreds of top parses for all Hunter specs throughout the game's history. He is also the Founder and Admin of Trueshot Lodge, the Hunter Class Discord. You can find him on his stream on Twitch and his channel on YouTube. He also has his own personal Discord server where you can freely ask him any Hunter questions you may have!
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